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Subject: Re: Ready to take the dive. Any suggestions on checker and chess pgm books

Author: Eli Bendersky

Date: 07:30:33 02/20/04

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On February 19, 2004 at 09:51:41, S J J wrote:

>
>   After reading posts for three years, I'm ready to make a first
>feeble attempt at a program.   Odss are that checkers would be
>the best place to cut my teeth.
>
>   Can anyone recommend any books or web pages that would give a
>novice programer a start to writing checkers and chess programs?
>
>Best Regards,
>Steve "No Moore's Law" J

Please allow me to offer an advice from my personal experience: choose your
favorite game and code it. If you're an avid chess player (why else would
you read this group for 3 years ?!) don't go for checkers, othello etc,
since the chances that you won't stay loyal to it are high.

If you want to start with chess, a shameless plug on my behalf is to offer
you to take a look at my Jamca project - free documentation and GPL code
for a chess playing program - developed and released on-the-fly (still very
incomplete):

www.geocities.com/spur4444/prog/jamca/jamca.html

Eli



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